Manage Bugsnag Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use wizards in DBArtisan to create a JDBC data source for Bugsnag.

The CData JDBC Driver for Bugsnag seamlessly integrates Bugsnag data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Bugsnag data as a database. This article shows how to create a JDBC source for Bugsnag in DBArtisan. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Bugsnag Data into DBArtisan Projects

Follow the steps below to register Bugsnag data as a database instance in your project:

  1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
  2. Select Generic JDBC.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. In the resulting dialog, click New. Enter a name for the driver and click Add. In the resulting dialog, navigate to the driver JAR. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
  5. In the Connection URL box, enter credentials and other required connection properties in the JDBC URL.

    Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Bugsnag Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Bugsnag.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Bugsnag (see below).

    Bugsnag API Profile Settings

    Generate your Personal Auth Token in BugSnag under My Account settings.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

    For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Bugsnag JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

    java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
    

    Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

    Below is a typical connection string:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Bugsnag.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_personal_auth_token';
  6. Finish the wizard to connect to Bugsnag data. Bugsnag entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Bugsnag data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Bugsnag API.

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